Legal Opinion
National Lawyers Guild v. Attorney General
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 20, 1982No. 77 Civ. 0999 (CLB)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SINCLAIR, Magistrate:
In Discovery Order No. 41 (“D.O. 41”) this court reviewed a proposal by John A. Mintz, Assistant Director-Legal Counsel of the FBI, that the FBI be permitted to use a sampling technique in making its executive *393privilege claims (“2F” deletions; state secrets) rather than claiming separately for every asserted privileged item. See D.O. 41 at 52.1 Pursuant to the court’s directions in D.O. 41, defendants have submitted proposed categories of state secrets with examples of their application. Plaintiff has responded thereto. For the reasons stated below, the sampling technique…
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